Bathing suit



Ingaxmas v SAMUEL HERLIGH, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA l l BATHING SUIT Application filed `October 30, 1328. Serial No. 315,941.

lviy invention relates to bathing suits and particularly to the one-piece type of suit.

One-piece bathing suits are customarily made of knitted fabric with the wales of the goods running longitudinally7 of the suit7 that is, the suit is stretchable transversely but resists any tendency to stretch it longitudinally. Unless the suit is carefully fitted,

it will either bind when ithe wearer bends or will lack the neat, snugly fitted appearance demanded by bathers today. Consequently, a person cannot comfortably wear a Suit which lits another person of the same chest measure but of lesser height. @ne-piece bathsuits are generally entered through the neck of the suit and one or both of the shoulder straps are separable ,to facilitate donning they garment.Y The'ends of a separable strap are connected by a button and buttonhole or other fastening means which will often become unservicable after the suit has .een in use for time and the ends often eeo-ie disconnected while the suit is being v ern.

Trie object of this invention is to provide a one-piece bathing suit that will comfortably and neatly fit persons differing in girth and stature, which will yield to the movements of the body, and in which separable shoulder straps are unnecessary.

The invention consists in providing a suit having the rear piece of the trunks stretchable longitudinally of the suit and bifurcated to receive a crotch piece which is stretchable transversely, the balance of the suit being stretchable transversely and provided with shoulder straps which may be nonseparable, as illustrated by the embodiment shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure lis a front view of a suit constructed according to my invention, showing it folded flat and with the skirt broken away to espose the trunks. h v

Figure 2 an enlarged longitudinal section, taken in the plane of line 2-2 on Figure l but showing the skirt intact and the suit somewhat distended, l

Figure 3 a bottom view, as indicated by line 3-3 on Figure 2, but drawnV to a larger scale and showing the suit further distended,

Figure -l arear view of the *suitl shown in Figure l, showing same folded lflat and Awith the skirt broken away to expose the trunks,y

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Figures 5 and 6 views of the front and rear u pieces of the trunks as they appear vbef-ore bei-ng incorporated in the suit.

vReferring more in detail to the drawings, the suit has a body part' consistingof a shirt l0, an integral skirt llyandY shoulder strapsl l2 which need not be separable; t-lie wales `of la and` a' rear piece l5. l Y

The rear piece has the walesof he goods running transversely and is provided lwith a bifurcation 16 (see Figure) which may extend more than a third of the distanceV from the center ofthe crotch to the waist line. The front vpiece has the wales of the goods running longitudinally and is provided with an extension 17 which is preferably formed integral with the front piece and of substantial width so as to provide ample room and elasticity in the crotch of the garment. y

The front piece, lwhich is preferably wider than the rear piece, has its side edges i8 and 19 secured to the side edges 20 and 2l of the rear piece to form seams 22 and 23, respectively, and the edges of extension l? are secured to the edges of bifurcation 16 to forni seam 24. llfhen the suit is folded dat, seams 22 and 23 will appear on 'the back of the trunks and the greater part of seam 24 be concealed as the rear piece will fold along lines 25 and 26. When a person bends over, the distance from the crotch to the top of the shoulders increases along the back and causes a conv` ventional bathing suit 'to bind as it has little elasticity longitudinally. n `When my iingroved uit is worn, however, the wearer can bend and move with perfect freedom due to the seatof the trunks being stretchable longitudinally of the garment and extension 17 being stretchabletransversely. Further, the suit will fit persons of dierent stature and may be donned without separating one or ieu both of the shoulder straps as the rear piece of the trunks will give sufiiciently to allow non-separable straps to be slipped over the shoulders. f

Various changes in details of construction may be made in the garment Within the scope of the invention without departing from the spirit of theinvention as hereinbefore set forth and hereinafter claimed.

I claim:

1. A bathing suit of knitted material comprising a bod kpart and a pair of trunks secured to the hody partI and consisting of a rear piece, having the Wales of the material running transversely of the suit and being bifuregted for more than one-third of the distance from the center of the crotch to the 10p 0f the trunks, and a front piece, of greater Width than the rear piece, secured to the rear pipes and havin the Wales of the material rming klongitu inally and being provided with an integral extension which is secured in the bifurcation in the rear piece and forms the crotch of the garment.

, 2. A bat-hing'suit composed of knitted fabrio md comprising a nether portion, the posterior partof which has its Wales extending transversely, and the wales slitted for a distance from the bottom upwardly, and an attached anterior part, having wales extending vertically with a central extension, said centml extension having its edges secured to the of the slit.

testimony I have signed my name to this specification.

SAMUEL HERLICH. 

